description: "Learn how GitLab's documentation website is architectured."

Docs site architecture

Learn how we build and architecture gitlab-docs and deploy it to https://docs.gitlab.com.

Assets

To provide an optimized site structure, design, and a search-engine friendly website, along with a discoverable documentation, we use a few assets for the GitLab Documentation website.

Libraries

SEO

Global nav

To understand how the global nav (left sidebar) is built, please read through the global navigation doc.

Deployment

The docs site is deployed to production with GitLab Pages, and previewed in merge requests with Review Apps.

The deployment aspects will be soon transfered from the original document to this page.